[CDHart]

Good article. Thanks for posting it.

Carolyn

[wideawake]

At certain points around that area the Rappahannock is 250-300 feet wide.

There are plenty of teenagers who can throw a rock that far. Not a particularly difficult "legend" to credit.

[ETL]

"The house stood on a terrace overlooking the Rappahannock River, where legend has it the boy threw a stone or a coin across to Fredericksburg."

They even found the coin! Here it is!

[Savage Beast]

"The tale of the boy owning up to whacking his father’s prized cherry tree...has long since been discredited as apocryphal."

It would be an enormous improvement if the New York Times could rise to the level of apocryphal.

[kalee]

I can’t remember who has the Am Revolution ping list.
But GGG might be interested in this, so ping to GGG.

[Liberty Valance]

A clay pipe with a Masonic crest found in one of the cellars may have belonged to George. Other artifacts recovered at the site included wine bottles, knives and forks, pieces of small figurines and bone toothbrush handles.

Photo: Adrian Coakley, Copyright 2008 National Geographic

[Diver Dave]

Hmmmm.... So they found George’s boyhood home.

Perhaps now someone will dig up Obama’s home. Let’s see now, will it be in Hawaii, Canada, or Kenya?